So we keep at this podcast thing. We keep at it even when it seems as if we’re screaming WOLF! in an empty theater. After all, if the wolf can get into a theater in the first place, chances are it did so to be alone. It won’t matter how loud you scream or how many capital letters with exclamation points you use to get through that wolf’s thick head.
In other words, we made a show without Sarah today. Remember her? The quiet and retiring type? Such a dear that Sarah, it’s amazing that a young lady as mousy and shy as her agrees to be on a podcast in the first place.
But we sent her out to see a dentist today and so Dan Roche, DJ B-Seid and me stripped it down a touch. Y’know, we went acoustic or “unplugged” as the rock-n-roll types say.
Remember that whole unplugged thing? Back when the M in MTV used to stand for Music, the popular cable channel used to do this thing where well-known pop stars showed up and instead of playing songs with electric guitars and wired microphones, they did it “unplugged.” That meant they subbed in wooden guitars, emptied moonshine jugs and megaphones.
Needless to say it was a giant hit.
And like any landmark event in television history, MTV took the unplugged phenomenon and beat it like a bad habit. In fact, it got to the point where those acoustic guitars sounded just like fingernails on a chalkboard—and not one of those new-fangled dry erase boards, either. This is an old-timey chalkboard with chalk and the fingernails. They have them in museums… go check it out.
Anyway, our little group remains undaunted. Even when interlopers burst into our little room to change clothes or use the complimentary hair spray, we forge on… and so should you.